For more than a year and a half, Shoshana Shendelman has been at the epicenter of one of the biggest stories in the country: the raging campus battles over Israel’s war on Gaza. Earlier in the year, Columbia University, an institution deeply entwined with Shendelman’s life, was the site of the first major university protest encampment. And the university cracked down, inviting police onto its New York campus where they made violent arrests .

Shendelman, who got two masters’ degrees and her doctorate from Columbia and whose child currently attends the school, had sat on the board of trustees of the university since March 2023. According to a recent New York Magazine story , Shendelman was one of the most active board members in the pro-Israel camp pushing for action to restore order

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